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A joint effort by the Department of Agriculture and Coca-Cola North America to conserve water in national forests has restored 1 billion liters of water, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said today.

August was the warmest month NASA has ever recorded, tying July for a dubious honor that highlights the effects of climate change.

The iconic Joshua tree and three other species moved a step closer to Endangered Species Act protection, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced today.

Valero Energy Corp. has bolstered its K Street team.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski faces a wealth of challengers as she seeks a third full term in office this fall, but the Republican lawmaker opted to take on a different adversary in her first television spot: "Frankenfish."

Donald Trump has vowed to "cancel" the Paris climate agreement if he wins the White House, but experts predict the Republican would face a groundswell of resistance at home and abroad to such action.

Rep. Brad Ashford (D-Neb.) has proposed ending some of the finer things enjoyed by members of Congress.

The House's top watchdog is asking federal agencies why are they dragging their feet when responding to his requests for their records.

Rep. Matt Cartwright (D), a second-term lawmaker from northeastern Pennsylvania's coal region, will fill the open seat on the House Appropriations Committee, following the resignation this summer of scandal-plagued Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), a veteran appropriator.

Legislation to speed forest thinning in wildfire-prone areas passed the Senate Agriculture Committee today, but lawmakers left a key issue — how to pay for fire management in the long run — unresolved.

Southern Co. CEO Tom Fanning thinks recent public attacks on his utility's landmark carbon capture project are "garbage."

House Republicans heaped praise on GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence this morning, while the former Indiana governor and congressman hailed the "Better Way" agenda of Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as key to Donald Trump's plan to "make American great again."

The Texas billionaire behind the proposed $3.7 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline is doubling down on the project despite a temporary freeze from the Obama administration and ongoing protests.

The Bureau of Land Management's decision last week to cancel a research project testing surgical sterilization methods for wild mares has once again ignited a fierce debate over how best to deal with growing herds of wild horses and burros that critics say are damaging Western rangelands. Now BLM's National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board is recommending the agency take aggressive steps to sell the more than 40,000 wild horses it has rounded up and is caring for in corrals — and euthanize those horses it cannot sell or adopt.

Russian scientists drove away a dozen polar bears that for two weeks besieged their weather station on an island in the Arctic Ocean.

A draft of Utah's water management plan has been sent to a task force, but it's not clear whether the document will be made available to the public.

Gov. Jerry Brown (D) yesterday signed a law banning theme parks and other organizations in California from breeding orcas and using them in entertainment performances.

A Virginia mosquito biologist has taken to rap to disseminate prevention tips for the Zika virus.

Household dust across the United States contains potentially harmful chemicals such as flame retardants and phthalates, according to a study published today.

In Hollywood today, it is rare to see a film that doubles as a slam against a multibillion-dollar company.

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